Question

Which phrase defines “personification” best? a direct comparison between two things; saying one thing is the other giving human qualities to an idea or an inanimate object a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

Answer 1

Answer:

Personification refers to giving human qualities to an idea or an inanimate object.

Explanation:

Personification is a rhetorical figure and stylistic measure consisting in the metaphorical representation of animals and plants, inanimate objects, phenomena or ideas as human persons.  In other words, whenever emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures, and speech are presented in the context of an inanimate being, personification is said to have occurred.

Personification also occurs in the fine arts, where it represents abstract concepts as human figures using appropriate attributes (for example, the seasons, or the justice).

Answer 2

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects